Ontology Mapping and Merging through OntoDNA for Learning Object.pdf

Kiu, C.-C., Lee, C.-S. (2006). Ontology Mapping and Merging through OntoDNA for Learning Object Reusability. Educational Technology Society, 9 (3), 27-42. 27 ISSN 1436-4522 (online) and 1176-3647 (print). ? International Forum of Educational Technology Society (IFETS). The authors and the forum jointly retain the copyright of the articles. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than IFETS must be honoured. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from the editors at kinshuk@. Ontology Mapping and Merging through OntoDNA for Learning Object Reusability Ching-Chieh Kiu Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Multimedia, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia cckiu@.my Chien-Sing Lee Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Multimedia, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia cslee@.my ABSTRACT The issue of structural and semantic interoperability among learning objects and other resources on the Internet is increasingly pointing towards Semantic Web technologies in general and ontology in particular as a solution provider. Ontology defines an explicit formal specification of domains to learning objects. However, the effectiveness to interoperate learning objects among various learning object repositories are often reduced due to the use of different ontological schemes to annotate learning objects in each learning object repository. Hence, structural differences and semantic heterogeneity between ontologies need to be resolved in order to generate shared ontology to facilitate learning object re